Word: all-night
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Sturdy peasants mounted guard all night over a simple coffin which had arrived by truck. Officially the Government of dictatorial King Alexander frowns on Sarajevo's bland assassinophilia, but His Majesty's police know better than to try 'to thwart such resolute citizens. After the all-night vigil, peasants put the coffin on a cart, decked it with flowers. On either side of the road brawny youths and robust girls of Sarajevo's so-called "athletic associations" mounted vigorous guard. Slowly the cart creaked to Sarajevo's cemetery and there proud gravediggers buried the bones of the archconspirator who instigated...
Cuba had a fresh President, that grand old man of the old line politicos, Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. Exhausted by his all-night job, Batista was still sound asleep that noon when President Mendieta pushed through a cheering, laughing mob with 20 potent politico friends to take the oath of office from his predecessor's well-trained father...
...first aggressive action of the week when a group of Southerners stomped off a convention dance floor because three Negro delegates were present. They threatened to resign from the Federation if the Negroes were allowed to remain. The Negroes politely withdrew. But after sweating over the problem in an all-night session the Federation's executive committee decided to uphold its constitution, which bans racial discrimination. The Negro delegates attended the grand ball & banquet...
...confidently atop the gondola and threw off ballast. A 55 m.p.h. wind swept the bag southeast across Ohio toward Washington. Near East Liverpool (Ohio) they were up 12,500 ft.; near Pittsburgh, up 49,000. At last, they scratched over 58,000 ft., began to descend, and while an all-night search for them was begun by Navy planes and land parties, landed near Bridgeton, N. J. They had not broken the Russian record, but they had sent the first U. S. balloon into the stratosphere...
...inhabitant, joining the crowd around the stove at the village store one nipping winter day, asserts that he can remember much colder weather, to prove it tells a Munchausenish yarn about an all-night fight culminating in a double murder. One of the skeptics is still unconvinced...